Martha thank you very much. Afternoon. Martha maccallum and this is the story. You are watching it with us. Moments ago former President Trump wrapped a fourth News Conference just since August Reminder that we have not seen 1 for Vice President harris freewheeling period of time where she was taking questions from the crowd. We havent seen that yet but look for to seeing that. The president at the very end President Trump did say he would leave the door open to another debate. He said ive been 2 already and has cautions about prior debate that just happened and says of them in the right mood that maybe he would consider it so see. Still got a couple months ago so there may be another opportunity. He defended his performance on tuesday. Watch. I thought the debate was great. I thought i did very well but i was fighting 3 people. I think he correct me 11 times. I dont think he had the right to correct me. Didnt crack her once like im project 2025 or had no Idea Nothing to do with me. He
feel the most to make the cig l argument you can t cut anything. that s a matter of putting the right people in government who have the right motives to help it work efficiently and work for the american people and not the people with an agenda. final question. dr. carson, on the flat tax proposal, you said you think that s the fairest way to take a portion of everyone s so we have been listening to dr. ben carson there talking to reporters in lynchburg, virginia, after he gave an appearance at liberty university. this is right after last night s gop debate in milwaukee. i want to go now to bloomberg s managing editor of politics, mark halperin and patiently waiting. i appreciate you waiting. you have been listening to ben carson. he was going in depth certainly on immigration and also about the minimum wage. i think most important he talked about whether or not he would be into raising it if he would get a good explanation on how it wouldn t hurt our current
does it tomorrow night. i wonder if carson is the one person trump can t attack without hurting himself. it s not all about the horse race. these candidates want to talk substance. ahead of an economic debate, ben carson putting out some details of a flat tax proposal. i m in favor of a flat tax because of proportionality. everybody should be hit exactly the same. in order to, you know, remain revenue neutral, we would have to make that rate at about 15% and eliminate all deductions and all the loopholes. that would get us about $2.7 trillion, which is still short of the $3.5 trillion that we need. so starting to get into more details, charles. thanks for being so dressed up for us tonight. i m trying to raise the level of the panel. this is my feeble attempt. look, carson basically gave that
does it tomorrow night. i wonder if carson is the one person trump can t attack without hurting himself. it s not all about the horse race. these candidates want to talk substance. ahead of an economic debate, ben carson putting out some details of a flat tax proposal. i m in favor of a flat tax because of proportionality. everybody should be hit exactly the same. in order to, you know, remain revenue neutral, we would have to make that rate at about 15% and eliminate all deductions and all the loopholes. that would get us about $2.7 trillion, which is still short of the $3.5 trillion that we need. so starting to get into more details, charles. thanks for being so dressed up for us tonight. i m trying to raise the level of the panel. this is my feeble attempt. look, carson basically gave that